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• I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.

  Lily Donaldson

  Lying, Pilates, Session

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• While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

  Charles Stross

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country.

  George W. Norris

  Country, Order, Sea

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• You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Hate, Body, Earth

  Cherie Carter Scott (2004). “If Life Is a Game...These Are The Stories: Trur Stories by Real People Around the World About Being Human”, p.1, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love Is, Fever, Violence

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• I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on the enlargement of the resources of life going hand in hand with the enlargement of territory.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hands, Age, Enlargement

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state”, p.77

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• My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration.

  Ezra Pound

  Struggle, Feelings, Intellectual

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• What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days.

  Denis Diderot

  Order, Perfection, World

  "Book by Denis Diderot". Book by Denis Diderot, 1749.

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• Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.

  Umberto Eco

  Grief, Joy, Feelings

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.458, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.

  Roland Barthes

  Stars, Real, Missing

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• She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as he pronounced it excellent, "You see, I know just how you like it." This tea had indeed seemed to Swann, just as it seemed to her; something precious, and love has such a need to find some justification for itself, some guarantee of duration, in pleasures which without it would have no existence and must cease with its passing.

  Marcel Proust

  Clouds, Laughing, Tea

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove”, Vintage

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• That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Mysterious, Harmony

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

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• Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

  Ronald Dworkin

  Life, Writing, Creating

  Ronald Dworkin (2011). “Justice for Hedgehogs”, p.437, Harvard University Press

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• Conflicts, even of long standing duration, can be resolved if we can just keep the flow of communication going in which people come out of their heads and stop criticizing and analyzing each other, and instead get in touch with their needs, and hear the needs of others, and realize the interdependence that we all have in relation to each other. We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Winning, Long

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• The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe’s history.

  Camille Flammarion

  Phrases, Earth, Chapters

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• A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

  Myles Munroe

  Commitment, Promise, Vow

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.27, Destiny Image Publishers

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• It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

  Robert Plant

  Smile, Thinking, People

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• By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Heaven, Degrees

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• After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the false hypothesis upon which its entire structure rested, namely, the geocentric system of the universe. ... the earth revolves in space intervened to upset the complicated play of planetary influences, and the silent stars, relegated to the unfathomable depths of the sky, no longer made their prophetic voices audible to mankind.

  Franz Cumont

  Stars, Science, Years

  "Astrology and Religion".

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• When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

  Epictetus

  Ideas, Imagination, Pleasure

  "Epictetus his morals: with Simplicius his comment".

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• The customer is always right' may have become a standard motto in the world of business, but the idea that 'the audience is always right,' has yet to make much of an impression on the world of presentation, even though for the duration of the presentation at least, the audience is the speaker's only customer.

  Max Atkinson

  Ideas, World, May

  Max Atkinson (2005). “Lend Me Your Ears: All You Need to Know about Making Speeches and Presentations”, p.14, Oxford University Press

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• I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a function of the duration of the war. I believe when you get in a war, get everything you need and win it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Believe, Loss

  The New York Times, p. 15, March 16, 1968.

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• Let it be said that when given a chance to complete the liberation of black Americans, on June 23, 2003 five justices consigned them to another generation - or, perhaps, a term of indefinite duration - of virtual enslavement to the past.

  Ward Connerly

  Past, June, Justice

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• It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

  Raj Chetty

  Unemployment, Benefits, Well Known

  Raj Chetty (2005). “Why Do Unemployment Benefits Raise Unemployment Durations?: The Role of Borrowing Constraints and Income Effects”

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• Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

  Mark Twain

  Differences, Light, Wit And Humor

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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